Visits Sentence Examples

Over the next couple of weeks, Cynthia made a few visits to town, once taking in a movie before she returned.

The unspeakable deeds of this animal who held us were well known to me, vicariously, through the notes of Howie's visits to his past.

Gabriel's visits weren't often, but Rhyn had grown to like him.

He never offered financial support, and though he claimed to want to see his daughter, visits never came to fruition.

Surprise visits and inspections.

The reports went back nearly three years and listed dates, locations and dollars expended, with each entry carefully and man­ually recording names, locations, reasons for visits and persons present.

According to his expense accounts, he only went to Scranton twice that we know of—both visits only a day or two.

It visits Palestine, but is unknown in Egypt.

He paid frequent visits to the court of his godfather the emperor Frederick II., and his loyalty to Frederick and to his son Conrad IV.

In the earliest Audit Rolls after the restoration of the college in 1467 there are many entries of visits of Provost Westbury to "the lord of Winchester," which in January1468-1469were for "beginning the work of the church" "and providing money for them."

In prison she won the affections of the guards, and was allowed the privilege of writing materials and the occasional visits of devoted friends.

The visits to the United Kingdom of properly organized teams of bowlers from Australia and New Zealand in 1901 and from Canada in 1904 demonstrated that the game had gained enormously in popularity.

It is interesting for its connexion with the 15th-century romance of Perceforest, since in it Alexander visits Britain, where he bestows Scotland on Gadifer and England on Betis (otherwise Perceforest).

The conqueror visits a cannibal kingdom and finds many marvels in the palace of Porus, among them a vine with golden branches, emerald leaves and fruit of other precious stones.

The excessive heat of the upper regions compels him to descend, and he next visits the bottom of the sea in a kind of diving-bell.

An occasional Argentine steamer visits these ports in the interests of colonists.

Since 1860 several visits have been paid to the group by scientific investigators - by Dr Habel in 1868; Messrs Baur and Adams, and the naturalists of the "Albatross," between 1888 and 1891; and in 1897-1898 by Mr Charles Harris, whose journey was specially undertaken at the instance of the Hon.

Other schools of philosophy pay flying visits to theism; intuitionalism is at home there.

The home established near Port Blair is used as a sort of free asylum which the native visits according to his pleasure.

It is also probable that the various forms of the angiospermous flower, with its many specialized mechanisms for pollination, may be the result of insect-visits, the flowers becoming adapted to certain kinds of insects, and the insects having undergone corresponding modification.

Kronfeld has shown that aconites are dependent for this on the visits of a Bombus and cannot exist outside the area where it occurs.

After the reign of Xerxes, Persis and Persepolis became utterly neglected, in spite of occasional visits, and even the palaces of Persepolis remained in part unfinished.

British visits to Eastern countries, at this time, were not confined to the voyages of the company.

A flamingo (Phoeniconaias) visits Fisherman Lake, and there are a good many species of herons.

Machine shops are usually provided to enable minor repairs to be executed; the tendency, both in England and America, is to increase the amount of such repairing plant at engine sheds, thus lengthening the intervals between the visits of the engines to the main repairing shops of the railway.

His account of his visits to England, entitled The Indian Eye on English Life (1893), passed through three editions, and an earlier book of a somewhat satirical nature, Gujarat and the Gujaratis (1883), was equally popular.

Other common modifications arise from the union of certain parts of the perianth to each other, and from the varied and often very remarkable outgrowths from the lip. These modifications are associated with the structure and habits of insects and their visits to the flowers.

Havingattained its object the insect withdraws, taking the pollen-masses, and visits another flower.

These illustrations are comparatively simple; it would have been easy to select others of a more complicated nature, but all evidently connected with the visits of insects and the cross fertilization of the flower.

On the first of these visits he made the acquaintance of a fellow bibliophile in Petrarch, who records his impression (Epist.

Subsequent visits to the same part of North America, often performed under circumstances of discomfort and occasionally of danger, brought to this intrepid and energetic explorer the reward he had so fully earned.

In addition to th e se residents or natives of the locality, Shelley, Scott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Clough, Crabb Robinson, Carlyle, Keats, Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, Mrs Hemans, Gerald Massey and others of less reputation made longer or shorter visits, or were bound by ties of friendship with the poets already mentioned.

Official receptions are held on it, and private visits paid; friends congratulate one another, and presents are given; new clothes are put on, and the graves of relatives are visited.

It was now essentially an animal den, the occasional visits of man being indicated by the rare occurrence of flintimplements.

During those two years he paid three visits to the university.

He paid twenty-two visits, which stirred up all the Scottish churches.

His people hailed every appearance among them with delight, and his visits to various parts of the country were public holidays.

In London society, and in Paris during his occasional visits, he was a recognized favourite for his genial wisdom and his great conversational power.

In Sambucus and Viburnum the small white flowers are massed in heads; honey is secreted at the base of the styles and, the tube of the flower being very short, is exposed to the visits of flies and insects with short probosces.

His life in London was varied by frequent visits to Italy, where he occupied himself more in literary and antiquarian research than with art.

The earliest account of the catacombs, that of St Jerome narrating his visits to them when a schoolboy at Rome, about A.D.

The relics having been removed, the visits of pilgrims naturally ceased, and by degrees the very existence of those wonderful subterranean cemeteries was forgotten.

Our description of the Roman Catacombs cannot be more appropriately introduced than by St Jerome's account of his visits to them in his youth, already referred to, which, catacombs after the lapse of above fifteen centuries, presents a of Rome.

Their yearly visits to Serajevo assumed in time the character of an informal parliament, for the discussion of national questions; and their rights tended always to increase, and to become hereditary, in fact, though not in law.

He often accompanied his father on his official visits to the lighthouses of the Scottish coast and on longer journeys, thus early accustoming himself to travel.

In 1875 appeared, anonymously, his Appeal to the Clergy of the Church of Scotland, and in that year he made the first of many visits to the forest of Fontainebleau.

The people dressed themselves gaily, some in the disguise of the mythical personages in the suite of Dionysus, and paid a round of visits to their acquaintances.

Most of the questions with which he had to deal related to the relations between the United States and Canada, and in this connexion he paid several visits to Canada to confer with the governor-general and his ministers.

An offer too tempting to be refused, and between the following year and 1681 his residence in the philosophic seclusion of the Bibliotheque du Roi was only interrupted by two short visits to his native country.

And the royal family in 1789 paid Weymouth the first of a series of visits which further ensured its popularity.

In the narrow " wynds " the nobility and gentry paid their visits in sedan chairs, and proceeded in full dress to the assemblies and balls, which were conducted with aristocratic exclusiveness in an alley on the south side of High Street, called the Assembly Close, and in the assembly rooms in the West Bow.

What about extradition, if a citizen of one country visits another and breaks the local law?

The chief events of the year 1893 were my trip to Washington during the inauguration of President Cleveland, and visits to Niagara and the World's Fair.

But whether Helen stays at home or makes visits in other parts of the country, her education is always under the immediate direction and exclusive control of her teacher.

That evening she expected several important personages who had to be made ashamed of their visits to the French theater and aroused to a patriotic temper.

None of us admitted to the possibility that the visions were real visits to the past.

Some of the locals she knew from her frequent visits seated themselves before Sean at the bar.

Belfair visits me in the nighttime!

The races, the English Club, sprees with Denisov, and visits to a certain house--that was another matter and quite the thing for a dashing young hussar!

These visits of Natasha's at night before the count returned from his club were one of the greatest pleasures of both mother, and daughter.

She rarely made an exception and went out to pay visits, and then only to the most important persons in the town.

Next time my son visits, I would like to see you also.

He later made yearly visits to Paris.

During the next two years I read many books at my home and on my visits to Boston.